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Put Vim documentation directly into /usr/share/doc

git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@10613 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689
Chris Staub 11 years ago
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  2. 18 9
      chapter06/vim.xml

+ 11 - 0
chapter01/changelog.xml

@@ -35,6 +35,17 @@
       </itemizedlist>
     </listitem>
 -->
+    <listitem>
+      <para>2014-06-30</para>
+      <itemizedlist>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>[Chris] - Install Vim documentation to /usr/share/doc
+          instead of creating a symlink there. Fixes
+          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3617">#3617</ulink>.</para>
+        </listitem>
+      </itemizedlist>
+    </listitem>
+
     <listitem>
       <para>2014-06-28</para>
       <itemizedlist>

+ 18 - 9
chapter06/vim.xml

@@ -83,7 +83,24 @@
 
     <para>Install the package:</para>
 
-<screen><userinput remap="install">make install</userinput></screen>
+<screen><userinput remap="install">make HELPSUBLOC=/usr/share/doc/vim-&vim-version; install</userinput></screen>
+
+    <variablelist>
+      <title>The meaning of the make option:</title>
+
+      <varlistentry>
+        <term><parameter>HELPSUBLOC=/usr/share/doc/vim-&vim-version;</parameter></term>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>Tells Vim to install its documentation into
+          <filename class="directory">/usr/share/doc/vim-&vim-version;</filename>
+          instead of 
+          <filename class="directory">/usr/share/&vim-docdir;/doc</filename>,
+          for better consistency with the documentation location for other
+          packages.</para>
+        </listitem>
+      </varlistentry>
+
+    </variablelist>
 
     <para>Many users are used to using <command>vi</command> instead of
     <command>vim</command>. To allow execution of <command>vim</command>
@@ -96,14 +113,6 @@ for L in  /usr/share/man/{,*/}man1/vim.1; do
     ln -sv vim.1 $(dirname $L)/vi.1
 done</userinput></screen>
 
-    <para>By default, Vim's documentation is installed in <filename
-    class="directory">/usr/share/vim</filename>. The following symlink
-    allows the documentation to be accessed via <filename
-    class="directory">/usr/share/doc/vim-&vim-version;</filename>, making
-    it consistent with the location of documentation for other packages:</para>
-
-<screen><userinput remap="install">ln -sv ../&vim-docdir;/doc /usr/share/doc/vim-&vim-version;</userinput></screen>
-
     <para>If an X Window System is going to be installed on the LFS
     system, it may be necessary to recompile Vim after installing X. Vim
     comes with a GUI version of the editor that requires X and some